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Vaccination24
  • Pertussis is an acute, infectious cough illness that remains endemic in the United States despite longstanding routine childhood pertussis vaccination ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • All students had received a full course of pertussis whole-cell vaccination at ages 2, 4, 6 and 18 months and 4-6 years. (who.int)
  • Booster vaccination with an acellular pertussis vaccine should be considered in adolescents and/or adults in our region. (who.int)
  • RÉSUMÉ Si la coqueluche est une infection évitable par la vaccination, l'immunité induite par le vaccin ne dure pas toute la vie et des doses de rappel sont recommandées en fonction de l'épidémiologie de la maladie dans le pays. (who.int)
  • During this time, the vaccination landscape has changed dramatically. (dhsprogram.com)
  • In cases where there is no vaccination card, mothers are asked whether or not her child received each type of vaccine and the number of doses. (dhsprogram.com)
  • Keeping track of vaccines for multiple children and for combination vaccines is challenging enough, but even more so if the mother isn't present for every vaccination event. (dhsprogram.com)
  • The vaccination coverage rate for basic antigens increased dramatically between 1989 and 1993 and dipped to a low of 52 per cent in 2003. (co.ke)
  • Probably, you have heard a lot about whooping cough -also known as pertussis-as a childhood infectious disease that is extremely dangerous, yet completely preventable through vaccination, and that the vaccine is on the regular pediatric vaccination schedule. (pregistry.com)
  • Furthermore, in certain communities in wealthy countries, misunderstanding combined with misinformation spread by anti-vaccine activists has led to a lapse in vaccination rates, which potentially can be very dangerous. (pregistry.com)
  • And yet, as numerous stories ( LA Times , MedPage Today ) have pointed out, California's epidemic has blossomed in a state that gives some of the most generous "personal belief exemptions" from vaccination - and the epidemic's worst hot spots neatly correlate with the most concentrated areas of vaccine refusal. (superbugtheblog.com)
  • Baraff LJ et al (1983) Possible temporal association between diphtheria-tetanus toxoid-pertussis vaccination and sudden infant death syndrome Pediatr Infect Dis. (blogspot.com)
  • That link brings the reader to a post on Age of Autism (one of whose editors was the source of the initial post, which has already been re-tweeted 50 times), which states unequivocally that a young boy named Elias Tembenis "died as a result of a reaction to his DTaP (P = Pertussis/Whooping Cough) vaccination. (sethmnookin.com)
  • Three-and-a-half weeks ago, a federal judge presiding over a special branch of the US Federal Claims Court that deals with compensation claims stemming from routine childhood vaccination (the official site of what's commonly referred to as the Vaccine Court is located here ), ruled that Elias's family was entitled to compensation. (sethmnookin.com)
  • In the Vaccine Court, the plaintiffs (or "Petitioners," as they're called), need only make a medically and scientifically plausible argument that a given condition could have been the result of vaccination. (sethmnookin.com)
  • Childhood COVID-19 vaccination: will it shape parents' decisions on routine vaccines? (vaccinestoday.eu)
  • BACKGROUND: Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for pertussis is recommended for household contacts of pertussis cases in the United States within 21 days of exposure, but data on PEP effectiveness for prevention of secondary cases in the setting of widespread pertussis vaccination are limited. (bvsalud.org)
  • The attempt to eradicate measles globally has manifestly failed , and there is growing acknowledgement that it is vaccine failure rather than failure to vaccinate that is responsible for the resurgence of measles in highly-vaccinated populations , with measles outbreaks occurring in both developed and developing countries in populations with 99%+ measles vaccination coverage. (vaccinechoiceaustralia.com.au)
  • The National Immunisation Advisory Committee reviewed the childhood vaccination catch up schedule in March 2020, the committee decided that MenB vaccine should not now be recommended for catch up vaccination when a child reaches the age of 2 years, unless the child is in an at risk group. (hse.ie)
  • ACIP continues to recommend annual flu vaccination, with either the inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) or recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV) for everyone 6 months and older and the CDC expects that there should be no shortage of injectable vaccines. (shotofprevention.com)
  • Despite studies showing the vaccines to be safe for pregnant women - and a full-throated CDC endorsement of vaccination during pregnancy in August - a Kaiser Family Foundation poll published in November found that 39 percent of all adults believed pregnant women shouldn't get the shots or weren't sure they should. (omniaeducation.com)
  • Given this widespread concern regarding social media's role in propagating vaccine hesitancy, we sought to characterize the temporal trends in pro- and anti-vaccination discussion on Twitter, as reflected by hashtags, and to determine the extent of inter-communication between these communities. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • 100 tweets were reviewed by two authors, with a third arbitrating conflicts: after excluding non-vaccine-relevant or ambiguous hashtags, the remaining vaccine-related hashtags were labelled as pro- (score = 1), or anti-vaccination (score = −1) by manual review of associated tweets. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • According to the CDC, vaccination has led to a 92% decrease in pertussis deaths in the United States since the 1940 . (athleticult.com)
DTaP12
Tdap10
  • On June 10, 2005, a tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) formulated for use in adults and adolescents was licensed in the United States for persons aged 11--64 years (ADACEL ® , manufactured by sanofi pasteur, Toronto, Ontario, Canada). (cdc.gov)
  • Prelicensure studies demonstrated safety and efficacy, inferred through immunogenicity, against tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis when Tdap was administered as a single booster dose to adults. (cdc.gov)
  • 65 years, child-care providers, and health-care personnel) should receive a single dose of Tdap to reduce the risk for transmitting pertussis. (cdc.gov)
  • But you may have heard less about pertussis in adults, including pregnant women, and the adult version of the vaccine, called Tdap, which you should receive during every pregnancy. (pregistry.com)
  • In the United States, this is part of the reason why only approximately half of pregnant women have received the Tdap vaccine, or an up-to-date booster. (pregistry.com)
  • Often, doctors make a clinical diagnosis of whooping cough, meaning that a presumptive diagnosis is made based on the fact that you have not received a Tdap vaccine booster recently enough to maintain adequate immunity (or you were never vaccinated) and you develop a characteristic whooping cough that comes in intense episodes. (pregistry.com)
  • Since 2006, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has been recommending a single additional pertussis (Tdap) booster for anyone between the ages of 11 and 64. (superbugtheblog.com)
  • One of the diseases the Tdap/Td vaccine protects against is pertussis, otherwise known as whooping cough. (bye.fyi)
  • Vaccine makers have added a pertussis component to that booster, so next time youre due for your Td booster request the Tdap. (1800birks4u.com)
  • Last week, in their second meeting of 2016, the ACIP discussed cholera, meningococcal, hepatitis, influenza, RSV and HPV vaccines, as well as the safety of maternal Tdap immunization and the laboratory containment of Poliovirus Type 2 . (shotofprevention.com)
Acellular Pertussis Vaccine4
Bordetella7
Immunization10
  • The 2016 mid-term review of the global vaccine action plan2 provided a sobering reminder that global aspirations such as the elimination of measles and rubella or the attainment of equitable immunization coverage still remain behind schedule. (who.int)
  • In 1998, a series of regional cluster surveys (the ICONA Study) was conducted simultaneously in 19 out of the 20 regions in Italy to estimate the mandatory immunization coverage of children aged 12-24 months with oral poliovirus (OPV), diphtheria-tetanus (DT) and viral hepatitis B (HBV) vaccines, as well as optional immunization coverage with pertussis, measles and Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) vaccines. (nih.gov)
  • Pertussis immunization coverage has improved dramatically since the introduction of acellular vaccines. (nih.gov)
  • One attack of a disease, therefore, often renders a person immune to a second attack, providing the theoretical basis for active immunization by vaccines. (britannica.com)
  • In Kenya, routine childhood vaccines are guided by the Expanded Immunization Program (EIP). (co.ke)
  • The Bill adopts the entire CDC/ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) vaccine schedule, which now recommends or requires 70 shots of vaccines for 16 different diseases by the time a child is 18. (silvertipmusings.com)
  • Because diphtheria and tetanus toxoids pertussis (DTP) vaccine is routinely given during the period of highest incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), this study was undertaken to determine if there is a temporal association between DTP immunization and SIDS. (blogspot.com)
  • Prevention through immunization remains the best defense in the fight against pertussis. (medscape.com)
  • For more information about the importance of infant immunization, visit http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines. (recordherald.com)
  • An organism's immune response to a vaccine is dependent on a number of factors, including the site of immunization. (biomedcentral.com)
Whooping Cough28
  • In light of the reemergence of pertussis (whooping cough), the pioneering research of Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering is worth revisiting. (cdc.gov)
  • In light of the re-emergence of pertussis (whooping cough), the pioneering pertussis vaccine research conducted by Drs Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering ( Figure ) at the Michigan Department of Health laboratory is worth revisiting. (cdc.gov)
  • Although scientists had developed vaccines to control many infectious diseases including smallpox, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and tetanus by the 1920s, whooping cough proved a more difficult puzzle. (cdc.gov)
  • In the 1920s, pharmaceutical companies in the United States offered many pertussis and mixed-serum pertussis vaccines designed to both treat and prevent whooping cough, but none proved effective ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The major symptom of B. pertussis whooping cough disease is uncontrollable coughing. (nvic.org)
  • Pertussis whooping cough is highly contagious. (nvic.org)
  • Childhood vaccinations under the programme include Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)- administered at birth for tuberculosis, rotarix (rotavirus vaccine) at weeks 6 and 10, and DPT (diphtheria, pertussis or whooping cough, and tetanus). (co.ke)
  • Although these antibiotics do not moderate the whooping cough attacks, or shorten the duration of the disease, they do stop the B. pertussis bacteria from spreading through the body and they also prevent secondary infections (infections from other organisms). (pregistry.com)
  • I had pertussis - whooping cough. (superbugtheblog.com)
  • In the early 1940s, there was an average of 175,000 cases of pertussis (whooping cough) per year, resulting in the deaths of 8,000 children annually. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • At its peak in the 1800s, whooping cough (pertussis) was a deadly and rightfully feared disease, but by the 1940s, the deaths caused by the disease had declined by more than 92% due in large part to proper nutrition, water treatment, improved sanitation, and improved healthcare. (eviemagazine.com)
  • Pertussis (whooping cough) is a respiratory tract infection characterized by a paroxysmal cough. (medscape.com)
  • Pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, is a respiratory tract infection characterized by a paroxysmal cough. (medscape.com)
  • In the prevaccination era, pertussis (ie, whooping cough) was a leading cause of infant death. (medscape.com)
  • Based on this fact alone, it is clear that whooping cough vaccines don't work, as every child who had been vaccinated should have been protected. (naturalnews.com)
  • Even if some of the unvaccinated children at the school acted as "carriers" for the disease, a claim often made by pro-vaccine zealots, this only further reinforces that whooping cough vaccines are a failure. (naturalnews.com)
  • If unvaccinated children don't contract whooping cough while vaccinated children do, then there is no rational basis for continuing the vaccine program. (naturalnews.com)
  • In the case of whooping cough, a study out of the Netherlands found that whooping cough has mutated genetically and become more virulent as a result of whooping cough vaccines, which would explain why outbreaks are escalating. (naturalnews.com)
  • Whooping cough (pertussis) is an endemic (common) disease in the United States. (bye.fyi)
  • https://www.pennmedicine.org/updates/blogs/health-and-wellness/2019/january/whooping-cough-what-you-need-to-know pertussis," explained Paula S. Barry, MD, an internal medicine physician at Penn Family and Internal Medicine Longwood. (bye.fyi)
  • In fact, we have seen resurgences of measles and whooping cough (pertussis) over the past few years. (recordherald.com)
  • Earlier this morning, Jenny McCarthy's re-tweeted to her 225,354 followers the following message: "Pertussis vaccine (whooping cough) legal cause of epilepsy/death of boy. (sethmnookin.com)
  • Dr. Amler showed a chart comparing COVID-19 to Influenza and Pertussis, or whooping cough, and how they are transmitted using R 0 (pronounced R naught), a mathematical model used to indicate how contagious an infectious disease is and the average number of people who will contract a disease from one contagious person, patterns of infection and vaccinations and deaths per year. (nymc.edu)
  • She had pertussis, a bacterial infection that usually goes by the name whooping cough because of its distinctive seal-like cough. (1800birks4u.com)
  • The CDC has recommended inoculation against influenza and whooping cough for years, but only 40 percent of pregnant women received both of those vaccines in the 2019-20 flu season. (omniaeducation.com)
  • The Covid vaccines aren't the first to be recommended during pregnancy - the CDC also recommends whooping cough and flu vaccines. (omniaeducation.com)
  • Diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and measles are vaccine-preventable infections that attack the respiratory system as well as other organs. (icloudhospital.com)
  • Pertussis: Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can be fatal in infants. (athleticult.com)
Haemophilus2
  • Other vaccines include Hepatitis B , Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal, measles and rubella. (co.ke)
  • Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) vaccine (3 or 4 doses) prevents several types of illness, including ear infections, lung infection, swelling in the throat and swelling in the lining of the brain and spinal cord (meningitis). (healthychildren.org)
Polio10
  • The measles and rubella elimination goal of the global vaccine action plan is therefore fragile and could suffer dramatically from the withdrawal of polio support. (who.int)
  • It is also recognized, however, that vaccine transmissibility can be helpful-e.g., in the case of live polio vaccine , which can be spread from vaccinated children to others who have not been vaccinated. (britannica.com)
  • and Tetanus ), Polio , and Measles were the only childhood vaccines most countries administered. (dhsprogram.com)
  • The schedule also includes inactivated polio vaccine that was introduced as part of routine childhood vaccines in 2015. (co.ke)
  • Polio (IPV) vaccine (4 doses) prevents a disease that causes death and paralysis. (healthychildren.org)
  • For example, a full series of measles vaccine will protect 99 of 100 children from measles, and polio vaccine will protect 99 of 100 children from polio. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • Polio is one example of the great impact that vaccines have had in the United States. (recordherald.com)
  • The incidence of paralytic polio decreased dramatically between 1954 and 1961. (nih.gov)
  • The Henrietta Lacks cell line (HeLa cells) at Tuskegee University soon replaced rhesus monkey cells as cells of choice for evaluating the Salk polio vaccine and measuring the quantity of antibodies that developed in response to poliovirus infection. (nih.gov)
  • In addition, many diseases that were once fatal, such as smallpox and polio, have been largely eradicated thanks to vaccines and other medical advances. (athleticult.com)
Rubella4
  • Pneumococcal vaccines for older adults and measles-mumps-rubella inoculations should also be prioritized, he said, especially given the measles outbreaks in recent years. (medscape.com)
  • For example, live-virus vaccines against measles, mumps, and rubella, first available in the 1960's, have dramatically im- proved the control of these diseases. (nih.gov)
  • By vaccinating children against rubella (German measles), we have dramatically reduced the risk that pregnant women will pass this virus on to their fetus or newborn, and birth defects associated with that virus are seen in only rare cases in the United States when a pregnant woman who was never vaccinated against rubella is exposed to someone who contracted rubella in another country. (recordherald.com)
  • A UK population-based case-control study found that having had 2 or more childhood infectious diseases (including chicken pox, measles, mumps, pertussis and rubella) was associated with a 55% lower risk of Hodgkin lymphoma in young adults (16-24 years). (vaccinechoiceaustralia.com.au)
Toxoids2
  • The adsorbed toxoids are combined with acellular pertussis concentrate, and diluted to a final volume using sterile phosphate-buffered physiological saline . (rxlist.com)
  • Each 0.5 mL dose is formulated to contain 6.7 Lf of diphtheria toxoid and 5 Lf of tetanus toxoid (both toxoids induce at least 2 units of antitoxin per mL in the guinea pig potency test), and 46.8 m g of pertussis antigens. (rxlist.com)
Immunity8
  • The schedule by which a vaccine is given depends upon the epidemiology of the naturally occurring disease, the duration of immunity that can be induced, the immunologic status of the host, and, in some cases, the availability of the patient. (britannica.com)
  • ABSTRACT Although pertussis is a vaccine-preventable infection, vaccine-induced immunity is not lifelong and booster doses are recommended according to national disease epidemiology. (who.int)
  • Because vaccine immunity fades, pertussis is always with us: in good years, about 1,000 cases across the United States. (superbugtheblog.com)
  • It's due to vaccine refusal, to parents turning away from vaccines because they think the vaccines are more harmful than the diseases they prevent - or, more selfishly, because they think the wall of immunity created by other vaccinated children will protect their unimmunized ones. (superbugtheblog.com)
  • It is much better to gain immunity from a vaccine. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • Immunity from a vaccine offers protection against future disease that is similar to immunity acquired from a natural infection, although several doses of a vaccine may have to be given for a child to have a full immune response. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • For some vaccines (e.g. tetanus and Hib) the vaccine is sometimes better at creating immunity than a natural infection would be. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that all adults get a pertussis booster shot to strengthen their immunity, yet only 2 percent of adults have had their shots updated. (1800birks4u.com)
Pneumococcal1
  • Pneumococcal vaccine (4 doses) prevents disease caused by bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae . (healthychildren.org)
Bacteria3
  • B. pertussis bacteria attach themselves to the mucus membranes of the respiratory tract and cause inflammation in the body. (nvic.org)
  • Another study published in the journal Infection Control Today admits that the vaccine strategy "[has] not completely eradicated strains of the bacteria," but rather led to "an increase in diversity," meaning deadlier strains that are more virulent and perhaps more contagious. (naturalnews.com)
  • Thanks to the MenC vaccine against group C meningococcal bacteria, the number of cases of meningococcal disease due to group C bacteria has fallen dramatically. (hse.ie)
Incidence3
  • However, the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases only began to drop dramatically after the vaccines for those diseases were licensed and began to be used in large numbers of children. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • In a study of more than 38,000 adults over age 60, the vaccine cut the rate of shingles by over half and reduced the incidence of postherpetic neuralgia by two-thirds. (1800birks4u.com)
  • Pertussis incidence is rising in almost every country where acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines have been introduced, and is occurring across all age groups from infancy to adulthood. (biomedcentral.com)
Infants and children1
  • A 0.5 mL dose of Tripedia vaccine is given to infants and children 6 weeks to 7 years of age (prior to seventh birthday) as a five-dose series. (rxlist.com)
Doses3
  • The data represent more than 240,000 doses of noninfluenza vaccines administered across 1146 ambulatory care offices, including 231 health departments. (medscape.com)
  • The first doses of the vaccines given at two months of age protect babies from 7 diseases. (healthychildren.org)
  • Rotavirus (RV) vaccine (2 or 3 doses) stops the main cause of diarrhea in children. (healthychildren.org)
ACIP6
  • The FDA, which approves new vaccines, and the ACIP, which recommends that new vaccines be added to the CDC schedule, involve unacceptable conflicts of interest. (silvertipmusings.com)
  • It fails to consider or provide an estimate of the costs of injuries and harm caused by vaccines, including increases in other illnesses, food allergies, and deaths, which should be provided alongside its estimates of lives and costs saved by compliance with the ACIP/CDC schedule. (silvertipmusings.com)
  • Health insurance coverage of vaccines is based on these recommendations and the ACIP guidelines are considered the gold standard among healthcare providers. (shotofprevention.com)
  • The most significant and somewhat surprising decision that occurred during last week's ACIP meeting was that the Committee voted in favor of an interim recommendation that live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), also known as the nasal spray flu vaccine, should not be used during the 2016-2017 flu season. (shotofprevention.com)
  • However, the action taken by the ACIP emphasizes the important role they fill in continually measuring and evaluating vaccine effectiveness. (shotofprevention.com)
  • However, it should be noted that with the ACIP vote the nasal spray flu vaccine should not be used during the 2016-2017 season and therefore should not be offered by providers or clinics and will not be covered under the Vaccines For Children (VFC) program. (shotofprevention.com)
Toxin1
  • 2 After purification by salt precipitation, ultracentrifugation, and ultrafiltration, preparations containing varying amounts of both pertussis toxin (PT) and filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA) are combined to obtain a 1:1 ratio and treated with formaldehyde to inactivate PT. (rxlist.com)
Infectious diseases3
  • Back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, pertussis was one of a handful of infectious diseases that killed many children, especially in crowded cities with a lot of immigrants. (pregistry.com)
  • Vaccines have now made possible the control or elimination of many infectious diseases. (nih.gov)
  • The successful development of effective vaccines has been elusive for many of the world's most important infectious diseases. (biomedcentral.com)
Diseases9
  • Of all the age groups, babies are more often hospitalized, and sometimes die, from the diseases we can prevent with vaccines. (healthychildren.org)
  • Because of better hygiene and sanitation, hadn't diseases already begun to disappear before vaccines were introduced? (immunizationinfo.org)
  • If vaccine-preventable diseases have been virtually eliminated from the United States, why do American children need to be vaccinated? (immunizationinfo.org)
  • Some diseases that once injured or killed thousands of children are no longer common in the U.S. - primarily due to safe and effective vaccines. (recordherald.com)
  • Vaccine side effects are almost always mild such as redness or swelling at the site of the shot, but this is minimal compared to the pain, discomfort, and risk of injury and death from the diseases these vaccines prevent. (recordherald.com)
  • Children in the U.S. still get vaccine-preventable diseases. (recordherald.com)
  • Some vaccine-preventable diseases can result in prolonged disabilities and can take a financial toll because of lost time at work, medical bills or long-term disability care. (recordherald.com)
  • Vaccines have reduced and, in some cases, eliminated many diseases that killed or severely disabled people just a few generations ago. (recordherald.com)
  • some are already in clinical use as vectors for vaccines against Ebola and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral diseases [ 1 ]. (medilib.ir)
Deaths9
  • In 1922, there were 107,473 pertussis cases reported in the U.S. with 5,099 deaths. (nvic.org)
  • In the United States, deaths from pertussis infections dropped by more than 75% between 1922 and 1948, the year before the DPT vaccine was licensed. (nvic.org)
  • It ignores the evidence that the CDC knowingly conducted flawed research in six studies on the MMR, mercury, and autism, including methodological problems, misrepresentation, destruction of important evidence, and conflicts of interest, and suppressed other CDC research showing serious injuries and increased fetal deaths from vaccines. (silvertipmusings.com)
  • The CDC's VAERS data base of voluntary reports of vaccine injuries for 2016, discussed below, report 432 deaths from vaccinations, and an HHS study estimates that VAERS reports only include 1% of actual injuries. (silvertipmusings.com)
  • For example, there were about 500,000 reported cases and 500 deaths from measles each year before the measles vaccine was licensed in 1963. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • The numbers of such vaccines deaths have never been truthfully reported, despite freely available published information. (blogspot.com)
  • By the 1940s, pertussis deaths had declined by more than 92% due to improved nutrition, sanitation, and healthcare. (eviemagazine.com)
  • The number of U.S. pertussis cases now ranks in the thousands each year, with deaths in the double digits, mostly due to related pneumonia. (1800birks4u.com)
  • However, through international efforts, as of 2021, an estimated 28.7 million people living with HIV were accessing antiretroviral therapy (up from 7.8 million in 2010), dramatically reducing deaths and transmission in many countries (see UNAIDS: Global HIV & AIDS statistics - Fact sheet ). (msdmanuals.com)
Dose of hepatitis B vacci2
  • Your baby will get a second dose of hepatitis B vaccine when they are 1 month to 2 months old and the third dose when they are 6 months to 18 months old. (healthychildren.org)
  • Few African countries have introduced a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine (HepB-BD) despite a World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation. (cdc.gov)
Booster4
  • But as with so many vaccines, the beneficiary here isn't just the adult taking the booster. (superbugtheblog.com)
  • The good news: If you get your regular tetanus-diptheria (Td) booster every 10 years, you wont need an extra jab for pertussis. (1800birks4u.com)
  • Researchers dont yet know whether the vaccines protection will prove lifelong, though, so you may need a booster when you get older. (1800birks4u.com)
  • All children are offered MenB vaccine at 2 and 4 months of age with a booster dose of MenB vaccine given at 12 months. (hse.ie)
Antibodies1
  • However, the antibodies wore off within a few years of this iteration of the vaccine and creation of the vaccine had led to the sacrifice of many monkeys (they needed monkey kidney cells to propagate the virus). (nih.gov)
Morbidity and morta1
  • Pertussis remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in infants younger than 2 years. (medscape.com)
Anti-vaccine11
  • Featuring prominently in this quackfest will be an anti-vaccine rally in Grant Park on Wednesday featuring some really bad, anti-vaccine fundamentalist Poe-worthy "music" and a keynote speech by Andrew Wakefield himself . (scienceblogs.com)
  • If you want evidence that Andrew Wakefield is being disingenuous at best and lying through his teeth at worst when he claims he's not "anti-vaccine," look no further than his having agreed to give the keynote speech at this rally. (scienceblogs.com)
  • One can only hope that the anti-vaccine movement posts YouTube videos of his speech so that I can apply a needed dose of not-so-Respectful Insolence to it. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Add to Autism One and the anti-vaccine loon rally the fact that Andrew Wakefield is releasing his book on the whole GMC affair, a book entitled, appropriately enough Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy . (scienceblogs.com)
  • More importantly, the confluence of Autism One, its associated anti-vaccine rally, and Wakefield's interview with Matt Lauer allows the anti-vaccine lunatic fringe to try to distract attention from what is really important about this week, and that is the fact that almost certainly shortly after this post goes live Andrew Wakefield will lose his license to practice medicine in the U.K. (scienceblogs.com)
  • One thing that Deer's introduction reminds me of, though, is that, whatever the problems with the GMC hearings on Andrew Wakefield and his cronies, being a " kangaroo court " or a " witch hunt " is not among them, although that is certainly the spin that the anti-vaccine movement is trying to put on them. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The study, published in Vaccine two weeks ago, is entitled Temporal trends in anti-vaccine discourse on Twitter is by Keith Gunaratne, Eric A.Coomes, and Hourmazd Haghbayana, comes from the University of Toronto, Western University in London, Ontario, and Université Laval in Quebec. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • Previous studies have confirmed that anti-vaccine content figures prominently across social media platforms, with criticisms encompassing themes of safety, personal freedom, and pharmaceutical and medical skepticism [7], [9]. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • Further, individuals exposed to such content may be more likely to spread anti-vaccine messages, cyclically propagating misinformation [10]. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • In response to the effects of online anti-vaccine messaging, Dr. James Madara, the chief executive officer of the American Medical Association, formally published a public letter urging leading technology companies, including Twitter and Facebook, to ensure access to accurate information on the safety and efficacy of vaccinations [11]. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • Twitter.com was re-searched on March 3, 2019, via the Python script for all pro- and anti-vaccine hashtags to create a final dataset of vaccine-related tweets. (respectfulinsolence.com)
Measles vaccine1
Vaccinations2
  • James Cherry, MD, distinguished research professor in pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Medscape Medical News that although the report does not specify which noninfluenza vaccinations were down, a few vaccines should be prioritized for timely delivery. (medscape.com)
  • I'd had my full series of pertussis vaccinations as a child. (superbugtheblog.com)
Symptoms6
  • Symptoms of B. pertussis at its onset are similar to the common cold, or an allergy attack with stuffy or runny nose, dry cough, loss of appetite, fatigue and, sometimes, a low fever. (nvic.org)
  • Pertussis cause what's called paroxysmal symptoms, meaning symptoms that come in intense episodes. (pregistry.com)
  • During a span of about 10 years, a single hospital recorded 15 pediatric cases of " acute cerebral symptoms ," such as encephalopathy (characterized by nonstop screaming/crying), seizures, and listlessness within mere hours of receiving the DTP vaccine. (eviemagazine.com)
  • Pertussis starts with cold-like symptoms and a mild, occasional cough. (bye.fyi)
  • There was no evidence of higher prevalence of cough or pertussis symptoms among contacts who did not receive PEP. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although the number of contacts who did not receive PEP was small, there was no difference in prevalence of pertussis symptoms or positive laboratory results among these contacts compared with those who did receive PEP. (bvsalud.org)
Pediatric2
  • The article follows a report released May 8 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that highlighted a drastic decline in pediatric immunizations through Vaccines for Children programs following the pandemic emergency declaration. (medscape.com)
  • From 1948 to 1996 , the U.S. vaccinated its pediatric patients with the DTP vaccine. (eviemagazine.com)
Autism7
  • Since this story was first published in 2004, the scientific debate it covered has been settled: Vaccines do not cause autism. (motherjones.com)
  • A year earlier, nine-year-old Andy had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, and Shreffler had just read a report in the journal Medical Hypotheses suggesting that such neurological disorders might be the result of mercury poisoning associated with an additive in children's vaccines. (motherjones.com)
  • Did the use of a mercury preservative in vaccines directly contribute to the autism epidemic plaguing the country? (motherjones.com)
  • Are the recent studies discounting a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCVs) and autism really rife with conflicts of interest and data manipulation? (motherjones.com)
  • It's just a survey that reminds me of the second coming of the German homeopath survey that tried to link vaccines to autism using such a horribly designed survey instrument . (scienceblogs.com)
  • Indeed, Kevin Barry himself, in his book Vaccine Whistleblower: Autism Exposing Research Fraud at the CDC . (scienceblogs.com)
  • A study linking vaccines to autism and other neurological problems has been removed by a Frontiers journal after receiving heavy criticism since it was accepted last week. (scienceblogs.com)
Children16
  • Noninfluenza vaccine rates are tumbling for adults as well as children, owing to the fact that concerns regarding COVID-19 have overshadowed routine care, an analysis from VaxCare indicates. (medscape.com)
  • By the 1920s, pertussis had claimed the lives of ≈6,000 US children each year, more than did each of the childhood scourges of diphtheria, scarlet fever, and measles ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • We are proud to be sharing data to help track progress towards closing the gap as our implementing partners reach more children with a larger variety of vaccines. (dhsprogram.com)
  • The rate of childhood immunisation in Kenya has increased, with at least 80 per cent of children having received all the recommended vaccines. (co.ke)
  • Work published last year by several scientists at Kaiser Permanente of Colorado found that unvaccinated children were 23 times more likely to contract pertussis than vaccinated ones. (superbugtheblog.com)
  • This letter is to share information with you showing why many Coloradans across the political spectrum have concerns about vaccine safety and effectiveness for the health of our children, and why we had specific concerns about 2019 House Bill 1312 (HB 1312). (silvertipmusings.com)
  • It fails to require that each Coloradan or Colorado parent always be provided easy-to-read written information providing informed consent, including benefits, effectiveness, risks, and reasonable alternatives to each vaccine, including the significantly increased risk to premature or underweight children, children taking antibiotics, or experiencing illness or eczema. (silvertipmusings.com)
  • According to all the mothers and the previously healthy children's medical records, all of the affected children had been developing normally and on schedule before receiving the DTP vaccine. (eviemagazine.com)
  • But as reported by CBS Boston , all of the children affected by the outbreak were already vaccinated, proving once again that vaccines don't really work. (naturalnews.com)
  • Some 15 children at Falmouth High School reportedly came down with the respiratory illness, which also goes by the name pertussis, sparking a wave of panic about a corresponding increase in vaccine exemptions. (naturalnews.com)
  • Vaccines are only given to children after careful review by scientists, doctors, and healthcare professionals. (recordherald.com)
  • The Vaccines for Children program is a federally funded program that provides vaccines at no cost to children from low-income families. (recordherald.com)
  • Currently, some 3,500 families of autistic children are slated to go before a special federal vaccine court-a step that Congress has required before they engage in any civil litigation, but one that will probably be just the first in a long legal battle. (motherjones.com)
  • Astonishingly, as each new vaccine was added to the schedule, no one bothered to total up how many micrograms of mercury children would receive as a result. (motherjones.com)
  • Because of the biologic and social vulnerability of children under 5 years of age and because childhood mortality rates decrease dramatically after the age of 5, "Childhood Death" is typically defined among the global public health community as death of persons younger than 5 years of age 2 . (bvsalud.org)
  • The MenB vaccine was introduced in Ireland for all children born on or after 1 October 2016 because children under one year are at the highest risk of meningococcal B disease. (hse.ie)
Infection7
  • The vaccine is a safe, very effective way to eliminate that risk right away by protecting babies from infection. (healthychildren.org)
  • A complete blood count (CBC) showing elevated white blood cell count (WBC) would indicate that your body is fighting an infection, which would support the diagnosis, but a definitive diagnosis can be made by swabbing your nose or throat and culturing the sample in the laboratory to see if B. pertussis grows. (pregistry.com)
  • Pertussis also can be complicated by dehydration , ear infection , and pneumonia. (pregistry.com)
  • Tests of nasopharyngeal specimens for specific pathogens are helpful when targeted therapy depends on the results (eg, group A streptococcal infection, gonococcus, pertussis). (medscape.com)
  • If pertussis isnt caught in the first few weeks, the infection may take three months to run its course. (1800birks4u.com)
  • Only meningococcal B infection is prevented by the MenB vaccine. (hse.ie)
  • Other types of meningococcal infection are not covered by this vaccine. (hse.ie)
Influenza1
  • While it's disheartening to see data suggesting that the nasal spray flu vaccine did not work as well as expected, the data did suggest that flu shots did perform well and offered substantial protection against influenza this past season. (shotofprevention.com)
Particular vaccine2
  • This particular vaccine is currently administered on a three dose schedule, however Pfizer's Dr. Laura York indicated during her presentation that the FDA has approved both a 2 and 3 dose schedule based on the data showing both schedules to be considered safe and effective. (shotofprevention.com)
  • But when it comes to things like "what should I do about a particular vaccine, vaccines in general, alternative vaccine approaches, and worries about vaccine side effects," they often give advice that I disagree with. (blogspot.com)
COVID9
  • The Covid-19 vaccine affects women's menstrual cycles. (eviemagazine.com)
  • and then reveal what everybody knew all along: The Covid-19 vaccine does, in fact, affect women's menstrual cycles . (eviemagazine.com)
  • Vaccine Hesitancy Post-COVID-19: Will Our Memory Fade or Last? (vaccinestoday.eu)
  • New York Medical College (NYMC) and Touro College and University System (TCUS) faculty and leadership gathered virtually for the 12th COVID-19 Symposium on June 3 to discuss the ongoing pandemic including new information on approved vaccines and the policy surrounding them. (nymc.edu)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than 6.8 million lives globally.2 While there is yet a cure for the disease, vaccines are now available. (annals.edu.sg)
  • Oral COVID-19 Vaccines Coming? (medicaldaily.com)
  • Health authorities hope the updated vaccines will provide better protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death. (medicaldaily.com)
  • At a time when vaccine skepticism is at an all-time high and medical misinformation is running rampant, the precautions that public health officials have long urged pregnant women to take are working against them when it comes to Covid-19 shots. (omniaeducation.com)
  • While there were early unknowns, there's now very strong evidence that Covid-19 vaccines are safe during pregnancy. (omniaeducation.com)
Causative1
  • B pertussis , a gram-negative pleomorphic bacillus, is the main causative organism for pertussis. (medscape.com)
Safety and effective1
  • Three times a year a specialized group of medical and public health experts meet to review scientific data related to vaccine safety and effectiveness. (shotofprevention.com)
Uptake2
  • Other counties with high uptake of vaccines include Nyandarua (95pc), Murang'a (95pc), Tharaka Nthi (95pc), and Mombasa at 93 per cent. (co.ke)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Very high PEP uptake was observed among household contacts of pertussis patients. (bvsalud.org)
Organism1
  • As far as anyone can tell, the rise in pertussis is not due to any change in the organism, or to any mysterious error among the manufacturers who make pertussis vaccines. (superbugtheblog.com)
Exemptions5
  • The bill makes it more difficult for Colorado residents to claim vaccine exemptions, despite the fact Colorado is one of the 10 healthiest states. (silvertipmusings.com)
  • It requires those who claim exemptions to sign false statements that contradict a credible body of peer-reviewed scientific evidence showing limited effectiveness and serious risks and potential harm including permanent disability and death from vaccines and vaccine ingredients. (silvertipmusings.com)
  • Reporting for CBS Boston , I-Team correspondent Lauren Leamanczyk towed the pro-vaccine line with accusations that vaccine exemptions triggered the outbreak. (naturalnews.com)
  • Undisclosed data she apparently found reveals that vaccine exemptions have increased fourfold over the past 25 years, which public health officials say increases the risk of an outbreak. (naturalnews.com)
  • Writing about the antivaccine demonstration at the California State Capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday in opposition to #SB 276, the bill co-sponsored by Sen. Richard Pan to tighten up state regulation of doctors writing letters supporting medical exemptions to school vaccine mandates, I started thinking about the whole social media apparatus that supports the antivaccine movement. (respectfulinsolence.com)
Pregnant2
  • Pregnant with her third child at the time, she had kept a close eye on the vaccine trials and knew that pregnant women hadn't been included in them - a concern she took to her obstetrician. (omniaeducation.com)
  • The fact that pregnant people are hesitant to use vaccines of any kind during pregnancy seems unsurprising to me," Reich said. (omniaeducation.com)
Clinical1
  • B parapertussis is less common than B pertussis and produces a clinical illness that is similar to, but milder than, that produced by B pertussis . (medscape.com)
Routine1
Severe3
  • Pertussis causes severe respiratory disease in infants that is potentially fatal, and approximately 70 percent of such cases are the result of unvaccinated mothers. (pregistry.com)
  • The disturbing part about all of this is that many of these Americans regret their decision to get vaccinated due to severe vaccine injuries such as myocarditis, heart failure, blood clots, miscarriage, altered fertility, fear of future repercussions, and death. (eviemagazine.com)
  • Severe reactions to the DTP vaccine continued through the 1950s, with doctors noting alarming increases in cases of not just seizures, encephalopathy, and hypotonia (limpness), but severe mental retardation as well. (eviemagazine.com)
Adults2
  • Most insurers cover the chicken pox vaccine for adults. (1800birks4u.com)
  • They establish, update and continually evaluate all the vaccine recommendations that are made in the United States for infants, adolescents and adults. (shotofprevention.com)
Effective vaccine1
  • Illinois pediatrician Louis Sauer and his assistant Leonora Hambrecht conducted smaller scale tests of their effective vaccine ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
Birth defects1
  • Over the course of her pregnancy, studies emerged showing no connection between the vaccines and problems in pregnancy and no association with birth defects. (omniaeducation.com)
Meningococcal5
  • Before the introduction of the meningitis C (MenC) vaccine in 2000, groups B and C caused most cases of meningococcal disease in Ireland. (hse.ie)
  • Who should get meningococcal B (MenB) vaccine? (hse.ie)
  • When was the meningococcal B (MenB) vaccine introduced into the primary childhood immunisation schedule? (hse.ie)
  • Does the meningococcal B (MenB) vaccine protect against all meningococcal disease? (hse.ie)
  • The first part of the discussion of meningococcal vaccines was a consideration of the data on the serogroup B vaccine Trumenba. (shotofprevention.com)
Polysorbate 801
  • The vaccine contains gelatin and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80), which are used in the production of the pertussis concentrate. (rxlist.com)
Disease12
  • In 1931, the American Medical Association's Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry found no "evidence even for the presumptive value of stock or commercial vaccines" because "the pertussis vaccines seem to have absolutely no influence [as a preventive], and after the disease is thoroughly established even freshly prepared vaccines seem useless" ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • We are facing what could be the worst year for pertussis that this state has seen in more than 50 years," Dr. Gilberto Chávez of the California Department of Public Health said last week in a statement put out by the agency's Center for Infectious Disease. (superbugtheblog.com)
  • Pertussis is an awful disease. (superbugtheblog.com)
  • Vaccines allow a person to be protected from the disease without experiencing the serious adverse effects of that illness. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • 2 This means that when there is a disease outbreak, the very small number of people for whom the vaccine did not work may still be able to catch the disease. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • However, the fact remains that those who have not received the vaccine are much more likely to catch the disease. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • Pertussis is a 6-week disease divided into catarrhal, paroxysmal, and convalescent stages, each lasting 1-2 weeks. (medscape.com)
  • Blaming unvaccinated individuals for spreading disease to vaccinated individuals makes no sense, and only further exposes the vaccine agenda for what it is: a complete myth. (naturalnews.com)
  • A child with a vaccine-preventable disease can be denied attendance at schools or daycare facilities. (recordherald.com)
  • The presentation took a look at the eight cases of Bell's Palsy, a disease that causes muscle weakness in the face after a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine was administered and the 28 cases of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome in people, mostly women, who were given the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. (nymc.edu)
  • INTRODUCTION: The appropriate use of clinically accurate diagnostic tests is essential for the detection of pertussis, a poorly controlled vaccine-preventable disease. (bvsalud.org)
  • This page provides a brief summary of the disease and the vaccine that is available to prevent it. (hse.ie)